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The community submitted over 40 white papers outlining suggestions both for the proposed JWST Director's Discretionary Time program and with regard to possible future priorities for JWST exoplanets science. Those papers are collected here:

TitleAuthors


The Unrealised Interdisciplinary Advantage ofObserving High Mass Transiting Exoplanetsand Brown Dwarfs


Casewell, Sarah; Centre for Exoplanet Research, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

Lewis, Nikole; Department of Astronomy and Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, 122 Sciences Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Moran, Sarah E.; Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Wakeford, Hannah R.; HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, BS8 1TL

Alam, Munazza; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Chubb, Katy L.; Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, UK

Hoch, Kielan; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Lothringer, Joshua D.; Department of Physics, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, USA

Manjavacas, Elena; ESA Office for Space Telescope Science Institute, San Martin Drive, Baltimore, USA


Contextualizing Planetary Systems and theirHost Stars for the Habitable WorldsObservatory


Bowler, Brendan; The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, TX 78712, USA

Teixeira, Katie;  The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, TX 78712, USA

Franson, Kyle; The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, TX 78712, USA

Booth, Mark; UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK

Bowens-Rubin, Rachel; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA

Carter, Aarynn; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA

Cugno, Gabriele; University of Michigan, USA

Debes, John; AURA for ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Factor, Sam; The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, TX 78712, USA

Girard, Julien H.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Hoch, Kielan; Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD, USA

Kammerer, Jens; European Southern Observatory

Limbach, Mary Anne; Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

Manjavacas, Elena; European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA

Martinez, Raquel A.; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Patapis, Polychronis; ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Rebollido, Isabel; Centro de Astrobiolog\355a - CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Rickman, Emily; European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA

Sutlieff, Ben J.; Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom

Theissen, Chris; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Vos, Johanna; School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Zhang, Zhoujian; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA

Zhou, Yifan; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA

Cool Planets Legacy Survey

Cassese, Ben; Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, 550 W 120th Street, New York NY 10027, USA

Kipping, David; Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, 550 W 120th Street, New York NY 10027, USA


Don’t Stop Believin’: The Importance ofContinuing the Search for Atmospheres onRocky Exoplanets with JWST


Allen, Natalie; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Bennett, Katherine; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Dos Santos, Leonardo A.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Gressier, Amelie, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Rustamkulov, Zafar; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA


Flexible Scheduling: A New Technique forMaximizing Scientific Output from ExoplanetObservations


Bennett, Katherine; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Dos Santos, Leonardo A.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Gressier, Amelie, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Ramos-Rosado, Lakeisha; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Rustamkulov, Zafar; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

Variability in Disks; a Signpost for ExoplanetsEliza Kempton (University of Maryland), Jegug Ih (University of Maryland), Jacob Bean (University of Chicago), Drake Deming (University of Maryland), Jonathan Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz), Mike Line (Arizona State University), Tom Mikal-Evans (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), Jasmine Blecic (New York University, Abu Dhabi), David Ciardi (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute-Caltech/IPAC), Lia Corrales (University of Michigan), Nicolas Cowan (McGill University), Tansu Daylan (Washington University), René Doyon Université de Montréal), Billy Edwards (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research), Guangwei Fu (Johns Hopkins University), Peter Gao (Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory), Renyu Hu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Lisa Kaltenegger (Cornell University), Thaddeus Komacek (University of Maryland), David Latham (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), Megan Mansfield (University of Arizona), Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), Rafael Luque (University of Chicago), Caroline Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Norio Narita (University of Tokyo), Matthew Nixon (University of Maryland), Everett Schlawin (Steward Observatory), Alessandro Sozetti (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino), Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University), Jeff Valenti (Space Telescope Science Institute), Ian Wong (NASA GSFC/American University)


Calibrating Accretion Indicators in thePlanetary-mass Regime with Multi-epoch UVand Hα Observations


Zhou, Yifan; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 530 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA

Bowler, Brendan; Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

Balmer, William; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Girard, Julien; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Cugno, Gabriele; Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Martinez, Raquel A.; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697

Franson, Kyle; Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

Bryan, Marta; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3H4


Constraining Atmospheric Mixing in GasGiants with JWST


Mukherjee, Sagnick ; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Fortney, Jonathan J. ; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Ohno, Kazumasa ; National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Division of Science, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Phase Curves for Hot jupiters

May, Erin; JHU Applied Physics Lab

Hammond, Mark; University of Oxford

Stevenson, Kevin; JHU Applied Physics Lab

Komacek, Thaddeus; University of Maryland

Lothringer, Joshua; Utah Valley University

Schlawin, Everett; University of Arizona

Mayorga, Laura; JHU Applied Physics Lab

Alam, Munazza; Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory

Gao, Peter; Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory

Moran, Sarah; University of Arizona

Wakeford, Hannah; University of Bristol

Lee, Elspeth; Universität Bern

Parmentier, Vivien; Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur


Constraining the effect of stellar activity onexoplanet transmission spectra


Allen, Natalie H.; Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA 

Ahrer, Eva-Maria; Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, K\"{o}nigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Foote, Trevor; Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Carl Sagan Institute, Ithaca, New York, 14853 USA 


Exomoons: Their Scientific Potential, UrgentNeed and JWST’s Unique Opportunity


Holman, Matthew J.; Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Tokadjian, Armen; Astrophysics & Space Sciences Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Baillié, Kevin; IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, 75014 Paris, France

Alvarado-Montes, J. A.; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2122, Sydney, Australia.

Szabó M, Gyula; ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Gothard Astrophysical Observatory, 9700 Szombathely Szent Imre h. u 112; MTA-ELTE Exoplanet Research Group, Szombathely

Zoltán, Jäger;  ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Gothard Astrophysical Observatory, 9700 Szombathely Szent Imre h. u 112; MTA-ELTE Exoplanet Research Group, Szombathely

Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Sulis, Sophia, Universite Aix Marseille, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France

Haghighipour, Nader; Planetary Science Institute, Institute for Advanced Planetary Astrophysics & Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

Turner, Edwin L., Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Kenworthy, Matthew A.; Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Roccetti, Giulia; European Southern Observatory, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany.

Nesvorny, David; Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USA

Lillo-Box, Jorge; Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA), ESA-ESAC Campus, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain

Donnison, John Richard; Astronomy Unit, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS UK.

Kleisioti, Evangelia; Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Lainey, Valéry; IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, 75014 Paris, France

Hill, Michelle L.; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Agol, Eric; Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Efroimsky, Michael; US Naval Observatory, Washington DC 20392, USA


Key Science Themes for Future JWST andHST Observations


Aggarwal, Keshav; Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India


Constraining the habitability of rockyexoplanets in the Milky Way


Greene, Thomas; NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA


Investing in the Unrivaled Potential ofWide-Separation Sub-Jupiter ExoplanetDetection and Characterisation with JWST


Carter, Aarynn L.; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Beatty, Thomas; Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Madison, WI 53706, USA

Casewell, Sarah; Centre for Exoplanet Research, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

Lewis, Nikole; Department of Astronomy and Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, 122 Sciences Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Moran, Sarah E.; Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Wakeford, Hannah R.; HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, BS8 1TL

Alam, Munazza; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Chubb, Katy L.; Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, UK

Hoch, Kielan; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Lothringer, Joshua D.; Department of Physics, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, USA

Observing exoplanet transits at near-infrared wavelengths

Radica, Michael; Institut Trottier de recherche sur les exoplanètes, Université de Montréal, 1375 Avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montréal, QC, H2V 0B3, Canada

Alderson, Lili; School of Physics, University of Bristol, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK

Eta-Earth with the Hubble Space Telescope

Burke, Christopher J.; Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Mullally, Susan E.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 SanMartin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

McCullough, P. R.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 SanMartin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Christiansen, Jessie L.; Caltech/IPAC-NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Mulders, Gijs D.; Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Av. Diagonal las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile;  Millennium Institute for Astrophysics, Chile

Colón, Knicole D.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 667), Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, USA

Dressing, Courtney; Department of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Agol, Eric; Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Eastman, Jason; Center for Astrophysics -  Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Quintana, Elisa; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 667), Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, USA

Fernandes, Rachel B.; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Ciardi, David R.; NASA Exoplanet Science Institute-Caltech/IPAC 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91350, USA

Kunimoto, Michelle; Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Huber, Daniel; Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai`i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Johnson, Samson; NASA JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Weiss, Lauren; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

Kopparapu, Ravi; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, USA

Zink, Jon; Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Kipping, David; Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

Bergsten, Galen; Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Mandell, Avi M.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, USA

Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K.; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA                                        


Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: AComprehensive Spectroscopic Survey ofTransiting & High-Contrast Giant Planets


Alam, Munazza K.; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Rickman, Emily; European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Hoch, Kielan; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Mollière, Paul; MPIA Heidelberg, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Lothringer, Josh; Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, USA

Carter, Aarynn L.; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Rebollido, Isabel; Centro de Astrobiología - CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Sutlieff, Ben J.; Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK

Kammerer, Jens; ESO Garching, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
























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